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...conquer Europe's rock curtain. In 1800 Napoleon widened the Alpine trails and made them military roads. By 1820 the St. Gotthard pass had been widened to 18 feet, enough for two-way carriage traffic, but only in summer. Then in 1870 the eight-mile Mount Cenis railway tunnel, an engineering marvel in its day, was holed through...
Last week the Alps faced their final defeat. As soon as the snow clears this spring, a French-Italian-Swiss company announced, work will begin on the world's longest automobile tunnel, which will pass right through Mont Blanc, the highest of all the Alps...
...Belgium, after watching miners struggling to push loaded coal cars over an uneven tunnel floor, a West Virginia mining engineer named Neil Robinson offered to slash production costs from $14 to $11 a ton-if given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...
...Below Zero. Jewell's trucks keep up a constant exchange of baby chicks for fattened broilers. After a final 36 hours of heavy feeding, the broilers are hung on a moving belt in Jewell's processing plant and killed, plucked, cleaned and rolled into a tunnel, where they are frozen stiff for shipping by a blast of 30-below-zero wind at 40 m.p.h. Jewell wastes little of the chicken. From the insides he makes soap oils and "tankage," which goes back into feed. From feathers he makes fertilizer...
...Aluminum Co. of Canada launched its $550 million Kitimat project in British Columbia, the biggest single industrial enterprise in the country. Work moved at a 24-hour-a-day pace on a ten-mile water tunnel through the Rockies, a 280-foot power dam, and the world's biggest aluminum mill to open in 1954. ¶ Iron Ore Co. of Canada got well under way on 360 miles of track through the wilderness of northern Quebec to its $200 million iron ore project in Ungava. ¶ A record $250 million was invested in exploration and development of Alberta...